National Stories and Narrative Voice in the Fiction of Joshua Ferris

Maxey, Ruth

doi:10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410

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“…This supports the idea of inter-personal shift, in which a speaker employs alternative pronouns to identify himself (Gibbons & Macrae, 2018). This is referred to as nosismthe scenario in which the referent of 'we' is a single speaker (Maxey, 2016;Akoto & Afful, 2022). It was found that the linguistic resources of the music utilized the nosism 'we' as a kind used for individuals rather than collective speakers.…”

Section: We For the Addresser (Composer)mentioning

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Exploring I-You Indexicals in Ghanaian Church Music

Dwamena,

Gyimah Manu,

Freitas

2023

LLT Journal

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Indexicals are important to contextual inference and generally, in semantic interpretation (Hanks, 1999). The present study set out to examine the use of the I-You indexical pronouns in Ghanaian Church Music. It was revealed that the I-Y spheres of the indexicals received relative frequencies of 4.55% and 3.35% in the data. Again, the study showed various referents of the I-You indexicals and their implication in the data based on their contextual and co-textual cues. The study extends knowledge on the subject of indexicality.

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Section: We For the Addresser (Composer)mentioning

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Exploring I-You Indexicals in Ghanaian Church Music

Dwamena,

Gyimah Manu,

Freitas

2023

LLT Journal

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“…We for lecturer corroborates the concept of intrapersonal pronoun shift, whereby a speaker uses different pronouns for self-designation (Whitman 1999) -which can be contrasted with interpersonal pronoun shift. This rhetorical use of we has been referred as nosism (that is, the situation where the referent of we is a single speaker) (Maxey 2016). Quirk et al (1985) and Wales (1996) described this nosistic type of we (used not for collective speakers but individuals) as editorial we.…”

Section: We For Lecturermentioning

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Different pronouns, same referents

Akoto¹,

Afful²

2022

Ghana J. Ling.

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In recent times, studies on I, we and you (tri-PP) in academic lectures havefocused on the L1 context. This paper, however, investigates thecommonalities in the discourse reference of I, we, and you across threedisciplinary supercommunities (DSs): Humanities (HS), Social Sciences(HS), and Natural Sciences (NS), using a corpus from an L2 context. Theconcordance tool in AntConc was used to search for all instances of the tri-PP. The referents of the tri-PP were identified based on the contextual andco-textual clues. The study revealed three referents –lecturer, students, andlecturer + students – which were common to all the three investigatedpronouns. Furthermore, the above referents were also noted to be commonto all the three broad knowledge domains. In a nutshell, the study revealedcross-pronominal and disciplinary commonalities in the discourse referentsin academic lectures. The implications for the theory of referentiality arealso discussed.

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Ferris, Joshua

Boswell

2022

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020

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National Stories and Narrative Voice in the Fiction of Joshua Ferris

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Exploring I-You Indexicals in Ghanaian Church Music

Exploring I-You Indexicals in Ghanaian Church Music

Different pronouns, same referents

Ferris, Joshua

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